French riot police clash with eco-activists as they clear abandoned airport site

Apr 10, 2018 | 3:27 PM

Thousands of riot police swooped in to clear eco-activists and anarchists during the evacuation of a protest camp set up a decade ago to block the construction of an airport in western France. While plans to build the airport were dropped in January after 50 years of debate, protesters refused to leave the site as they sought to turn it into a space of social, environmental and agricultural experimentation.